After fourteen months and sixteen days (roughly), I am signing off as Energy in Depth’s original Field Director tonight at midnight. Life’s journey is taking me down a slightly different path but don’t reflect on my absence from this group (or website) for too long....
A few weeks back, EID-Marcellus published a series of posts on the developing situation in Franklin Forks, where activists declared, without evidence, methane in a residential water well was due to natural gas development in the area. While these unsubstantiated claims have yet to be...
Christopher Acker Geological Engineer Resident of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Have you ever noticed when someone outside travels to Dimock, Pennsylvania, searching for truth, all he/she ever reports is hearsay? Take Carol Schoonmaker’s recent guest essay published on MPNNow.com titled Learn the Lessons of one Small...
Recent revelations regarding the deliberate attempts by a regional EPA administrator to “crucify” the oil and gas industry raise troubling questions about EPA political agendas in other regions. One of these is New York Region 2 out of New York City, which commented on New...
Sue Mickley Environmental Protection Committee Chair – Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance; MPH/HA – Yale University Uni Blake Environmental Consultant – Toxicologist Master’s Degree in Environmental Toxicology – American University Last week the Institute of Medicine held a roundtable discussion to examine the “public health...
There is something very strange going on along Carter Road, in Dimock, Pennsylvania, and I’m not speaking of natural gas, methane migration, contamination, litigation or even the extensive water testing there by the EPA and others. No, I’m talking about a new “Watergate” conspiracy, complete...
There is something very strange going on along Carter Road, in Dimock, Pennsylvania, and I’m not speaking of natural gas, methane migration, contamination, litigation or even the extensive water testing there by the EPA and others. No, I’m talking about a new “Watergate” conspiracy, complete...
Another week brought yet another compressor station hearing per request by the Clean Air Council (CAC). This one was for four new facilities owned by Willams (formerly Laser) that will move gas through the new Windsor Pipeline (formerly Legacy Laser) from the Marcellus Shale in...
Michael Benjamin Former Member of the NY State Assembly Roustabout may become the next hot job in New York. The term brings to mind films classics like Giant and There Will Be Blood. Once approved, Southern Tier shale gas wells and pipeline projects will need...
Bill Wilson Leader, Wyoming County Landowners Group I just submitted a version of the following letter to the editor of The Pocono Record expressing my disappointment with the continued misrepresentations concerning the development of the area’s natural gas resources, primarily consisting of the Marcellus Shale. I think it was...
Many years ago there was a cartoon that appeared regularly in some newspapers, called “There Ought To Be A Law.” It was a comical look at the frustrations we all have with other human beings doing inexplicable things, the stuff that makes us say “there...
The EPA released another round of water testing data on Dimock today and the results can’t be encouraging for litigants or anti-natural gas activists because there’s still no evidence of a significant problem with the town’s water. Here’s the data and here’s what EPA said...